TABLE 1.
Average treatment effect, Δ, and exposure-time-specific effect based on each of the five models
Exposure time | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3a | Model 4 | Model 5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average (Δ)b | θ | ϕ | |||
1 | θ | ω | π (1) | θ 1 | ϕ + δ1 |
2 | θ | 2ω | π (2) | θ 2 | ϕ + δ2 |
⋮ | ⋮ | ⋮ | ⋮ | ⋮ | ⋮ |
E | θ | E ω | π (2) | θ E | ϕ + δE |
We take the anticipated delay time ℓ = 1 here.
Average effect is a simple average over all exposure-time-specific treatment effects.